'Historical materialism is the theory of the proletarian revolution.' Georg Lukács

Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Arsenal FC collude in state terrorism

Well, perhaps not quite, but this brings a whole new meaning to the term 'the Gunners'.

'Under the deal, Israel will become Arsenal's "official and exclusive travel destination". Israeli tourist bosses will also be able to use the Arsenal team logo and have the right to use photos of the team and its players in its ads. A spokesman for the Israeli tourism ministry said: "The purpose is to broaden Israel's appeal to sun and fun-seekers". It hopes the new deal will bring an extra 2m tourists to the country.'

Ams.. wonderfull... More public promotion of the terrorist, zionist, state...Problem is I suppose most of us already have a clear-cut possition on this issue, but if you don´t mind, I´d like to ask what is -for you- the best possible (and realistic) solution to the palestinian problem.I would think that Hadhash´s program is the best (redefining Israel from a state with Jewish character to a bi-national state), but extremely unrealistic. I´m afraid that an independent Palestinian state -as Israel is ready to accept now, with a limited Cisjordania) resurrects the specters of the south-african bantustans...

I agree with you that a single democratic secular state is the only real long term hope - after all, Jews and Arabs have historically lived together in the Middle East for hundreds of years in peace - so it can't be dismissed as an impossibility.

However, how to get there? It is not in the interests of the rulers of either the US or the Arab world to fight for such a state.